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Flashcards by MAIRA MENDOZA, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by MAIRA MENDOZA
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| Thomas Malthus | was one of the first to argue that the worlds rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food population |
| Neo-Mathusians | people who believe in a set of doctrines derived from Thomas Malthus's theory that limited resources keep populations in check and reduce economic growth |
| Law | The majority of migrants go only a short distance. |
| Law 2 | Migration proceeds step by step. There is a process of absorption, whereby people immediately surrounding a rapidly growing town move into it and the gaps they leave are filled by migrants from more distant areas, and so on until the attractive force is spent. |
| Law 3 | Migrants going long distances generally go by preference to one of the great centres of commerce or industry. |
| Law 4 | Each current of migration produces a compensating counter-current. |
| Law 5 | Natives of towns are less migratory than those of rural areas. |
| Law 6 | Females are more migratory than males within the kingdom of their birth, but males more frequently venture beyond. |
| Law 7 | Most migrants are adults: families rarely migrate out of their country of birth. |
| Law 8 | Large towns grow more by migration than by natural increase. |
| Law 9 | Migration increases in volume as industries and commerce develop and transport improves. |
| Law 10 | The major direction of migration is from the agricultural areas to the centres of industry and commerce. |
| Law 11 | The major causes of migration are economic |
| Wilbur Zelinsky | a cultural geographer (1921) who studied American popular culture, including the patterns of migration in accordance to social and economical changes and the motives and distance for migration |
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